Panic Attacks Treatment

Before starting this panic attacks treatment blog I searched the entire internet for a natural panic attacks cure and decided to create place online to share my experiences. Since then I’ve received several emails from people telling me to take a look at the Panic Away website by Joe Barry.

Whilst browsing the site it’s apparent that this person really has suffered from panic attacks. There’s talk about thinking you’ve had a heart attack, going insane, losing control, nervous and on edge. Everything every one of us suffers regularly.

Joe has been teaching his technique for the past seven years and his web pages are full of testimonials from many happy people. What appeals to me most is that this technique can be used anywhere and by anyone, no matter the severity or reason for the attack.

This technique teaches the person suffering the panic attack not to fear having another attack. Most people who suffer a panic attack fear having another attack when in the same situation, this cause a vicious circle to occur. Joe’s technique breaks the vicious circle and teaches you how to eradicate that fear.

The Panic Away program is completely natural and therefore has no side effects and safe for everyone to use. It has been widely reported as producing some major and substantial results and for this reason, I am certainly giving it a try.

Click here to visit Joe's website and read all about his Panic Away technique and how it can help to cure your panic attacks.

I have been experiencing panic attacks nearly every day for the past year. In desperation I visited my doctor who prescribed Xanax. However, I’m really reluctant to take the medication as I want to find a natural treatment for panic attacks. I decided to ask friends and family members what works for them when they are feeling anxious as I am willing to give anything a try! I thought I would share these panic attacks treatment ideas I received with you.

One suggestion was to try drinking camomile tea as it is considered to be very calming. Also suggested was fish oil vitamins and vitamin B complex. Also to try taking Melatonin and St John’s Wort.

I also decided to look on some forums so I could ask some panic attack sufferers for advice.  A couple of people suggested breathing into a paper bag as an effective short-term treatment of an acute panic attack. However, reading more about this I discovered that this natural treatment for panic attacks has also been criticised for not being effective and even potentially increasing the severity of the panic attack. This is because the technique can lower oxygen levels and increase carbon dioxide levels in the blood - an imbalance which is thought to bring a panic attack on.

Cognitive behavioural therapy was also suggested. With this panic attacks treatment the person’s mind is ‘retrained’ to think differently about the panic attacks. Counseling was suggested to try and find the root cause of the panic attacks.

So now I have lots of things to try out, hopefully one of them will work for me and I won’t have to take the medications prescribed. Hope you have found them useful.

There is a complete technique for dealing with panic attacks in this ebook which was recommended to me by a friend recently. It looks very promising and apparently produces excellent results. Take a look here.

Since experiencing panic attacks, my Mum has found that the breathing exercises recommended to her by her clinical psychiatrist can really help treat panic attacks. So much so that she now goes to a weekly yoga class which she really enjoys. She has learnt that deep breathing and meditation, if performed on a regular basis, are thought to be one of the best ways to treat the symptoms of panic attacks.

Mum has showed me how to do the relaxing breathing exercises as I am hoping they will work for me too. She told me to sit in an upright chair and slowly take in a full breath of air whilst pushing out my stomach. Then when I feel I can’t take in anymore air to hold it in to the count of 20. After 20, I am to slowly breathe out through my mouth. After completing this breathing exercise I have to count to 30 and repeat it several times. Mum said she does this as much as she can throughout the day and it always helps to calm her and lessen the symptoms of anxiety and is a good panic attacks treatment.

Another exercise teaches sufferers  to breathe more deeply from their diaphragm and not just from their chests, this definately can help treat panic attacks. This exercise helps increase oxygen supply to the brain to help us to focus more clearly. Mum told me to lie down somewhere comfortable on my back. She then said to keep one hand on my chest and the other hand on my stomach. She said I was then to concentrate on my stomach rising when I inhale and fall when I exhale. She said to aim for around 5 or 6 breaths in a minute and to make sure that the whole exercise is a relaxed process.

Deep breathing exercises have been found to show amazing results as a panic attacks treatment. Although it seems such a simple way to treat panic attacks, it has proved incredibly effective for my Mum and I hope it does the same for me!

Now my Mum has learnt some deep breathing exercises sa a useful panic attacks treatment, she has decided to investigate more closely why they happen. From her research she has discovered that panic attacks tend to occur if we live with long-term stress:

We all experience feeling of fear and worry in our lives and are a normal reaction to stressful situations. It is only when these feelings exceed what they should be for everyday problems that panic attacks occur. As sufferers of panic attacks, both Mum and I both recognise the symptoms of a panic attack - sweating; a pounding heart and tense muscles.

Our body’s reaction to short-term stress is to release adrenaline and other chemicals which trigger mental and physiological changes; breathing and heart rate increases, blood pressure rises, we may start sweating and have tense muscles. This is called the "fight or flight" response which stems from hundreds of years ago when our ancestors faced dangerous situations and often had to fight for survival. These physiological changes help our bodies to react to danger by fighting or running away. Of course most of us don’t face dangerous threats everyday but we do have other stresses including pressure at work and relationship issues and for many these tend to be long-term rather than short-term issues.

Panic attacks generally occur when the stressful situation becomes long-term. We may then experience physical symptoms such as muscle pain and headaches and mental symptoms such as mood swings and depression. If the stress continues then more serious symptoms can appear such as high blood pressure which can make us worried about our health, causing further distress. This stress can then make us even more distressed, before long a ‘stress-distress’ cycle has started.

In this situation a panic attack can happen easily. This is very scary for anyone, especially if is the first time it has occurred and it is common for the person to believe they are dying. If after this first panic attack, the fear of suffering another can set the ‘stress-distress’ cycle.

Breaking the ‘stress-distress’ cycle is key to panic attacks treatment. There are a variety of different ways to break the cycle including muscle relaxation, breathing control techniques and cognitive behavioural therapies.

My mother suffers from terrible panic attacks and social anxiety disorder. On a positive note, she is overcoming the social anxiety disorder, however, the panic attacks seem to be increasing and getting worse. She doesn’t want to take prescription medications as she has tried some in the past and they just made the attacks even worse. She wants to try natural treatment for panic attacks if she can.

I took her to see a clinical psychiatrist who specialises in treating panic attacks. The psychiatrist was very good. She said it is important to discover the root cause of the panic attacks as medications will only mask the problem.

To treat the panic attacks right now she recommend a brilliant panic attacks treatment which is a breathing exercise to try when my Mum feels a panic attack coming on. She said when she feels a panic attack coming, she must do everything she can to stop the anxiety taking over her body as this is what leads to a panic attack. She said to do this her first action is to think of something pleasant and whilst doing this to do a yoga breathing exercise at the same time: breathe through your nose, taking in as much air as you can and then control the air by letting it come out as slowly as possible through your mouth. She recommended my Mum practices this yoga breathing exercise at home and said that usually 2 or 3 of them are enough to make you feel very relaxed.

Now to the root cause. She told Mum that as soon as she feels a panic attack coming on she must stop and look inside herself, and really think about what is going through her mind at that moment. Then, once the cause of the panic attacks has been established, she can work to find a solution to the problem by means of an effective panic attacks treatment.

Mum has been practicing the yoga breathing exercise at home every day and it definitely seems to be a good treatment for panic attacks.

My sister has been suffering with panic attacks for years. She often complains of a whole array of different symptoms of panic attacks and I was wondering how many of them are directly linked to anxiety. On speaking to my counsellor friend I discovered the following symptoms are common in a panic attack.

Firstly it is important to note that its not very often that everyone experiences the same symptoms of panic attacks; after all, we are all very different and therefore we all respond differently to the same situations and will require different panic attacks treatment.

The more common symptoms of panic attack are listed below. It is thought that experiencing four or less of these symptoms is called a ‘limited symptom attack’.

Symptoms of a panic attack include:

• Having a fast heartbeat, a pounding heart or palpitations
• Sweating lots, also chills or hot flushes
• Shaking visibly or inside 
• Choking sensations or feeling as though you have a lump in your throat 
• A shortness of breath or smothering sensations 
• Indigestion, Bloating, abdominal discomfort or nausea
• Dizziness or unsteadiness
• Chest pain or discomfort
• Feeling light-headed, unreal or dreamy
• Feeling that you are outside of yourself or you don't exist, disconnected from the world
• Fear of losing control or going crazy 
• Numbness or tingling in face, body or extremities
• Skin losing color 
• Blushing or skin blotches 
• Urgently needing to urinate or defecate

I Hope this list is of some help to you and goes some way to helping you find a good panic attacks treatment option that works well for you.